There are many celebrities with big families. Some have 6 kids, some have 7, and others can have even more than 10. We always wonder how they manage to balance their careers with their family lives when one kid is enough to drive us crazy. So here are 9 famous celebrities who create an army of their mini-me through biological means or adoption.
1. Kris Jenner — 6 kids
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Kris Jenner is the mother of 6 children: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, Rob, Kendall, and Kylie. She is a central figure on the reality
TV Show Keeping Up With the Kardashians, which is about the daily lives of her family members. Kris is also a proud grandmother of 12. She even helped deliver some of her grandchildren. In an interview for The Late Late Show With James Corden, the star claimed to be present at 9 deliveries.
2. James Van Der Beek — 6 kids
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James Van Der Beek and Kimberly Brook have 6 children together. James is known for being a hands-on father. He is very open about his large family and often shares his experiences as a father on social media pages. In 2020, his family struggled and grieved the loss of an unborn child. Lucky for them, they welcomed a healthy newborn the following year.
3. Mike Tyson — 7 kids
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The retired professional boxer is known for being a devoted father to his children. Mike Tyson has been married 3 times and had 7 children. Sadly, he lost his 4-year-old daughter Exodus Tyson in 2009. His kids are his everything and motivate him to turn his life around. Tyson considers his second wife’s eldest daughter to be one of his own kids.
4. Taylor Hanson — 7 kids
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Taylor Hanson has 7 children with his wife Natalie. He loves his children with all of his heart and often shares about them on social media. His family has become the most important part of his personal and professional life. In 2020, Hanson posted a photo of himself cradling his newest baby girl, captioning “Meet our baby girl, Maybellene Alma Joy, born Dec 7, 2020. 7 is a beautiful number.”
5. Mick Jagger — 8 kids
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Mick Jagger has 8 children from multiple relationships. At the age of 73, he welcomed his newest child. The singer thought age was just a number and anybody can be a father at any stage in life. He is a busy rock singer, but he never let his career get in the way of being a devoted father to his children. Jagger tends to keep his personal life separate from his professional one.
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Mel Gibson also had multiple relationships and became the father of 9 children. His eldest ones are middle-aged adults while his youngest ones are still kids. Gibson is a private person who likes to keep his personal life out of the public eye. However, anybody who knows him knows that he is a devoted father who loved his children very much.
7. Eddie Murphy — 10 kids
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Eddie Murph has 6 daughters and 4 sons. He is proud to be a father of 10 and has happily shared his experience as a father on his social media many times. Instead of being Hollywood brats, all of his children are good kids with humble attitudes. The actor considers himself lucky to have such a great family.
8. Nick Cannon — 12 kids
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Nick Cannon’s first kids were with Mariah Carey. In 2011, the couple had together a twin named Monroe and Moroccan. After their divorce, Cannon married Brittany Bell and had 3 more children named Golden, Powerful, and Rise. In June 2021, Cannon welcomed 3 more babies: Zillion, Zion, and Zen. Unfortunately, an illness took Zen away in 2021.
Cannon had another baby named Legendary with Bre Tiesi in 2022. Two months later, he welcomed Onyx and Rise. This made him a father of 12 kids.
9. Mia Farrow — 14 kids
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Mia Farrow is a mother of 14 children, including biological kids and adopted ones from various countries. She loves all of her kids equally and hopes that she can inspire other parents to adopt children without families.
Farrow lost 3 of her children, but she remains a mother to Matthew, Sascha, Soon-Yi, Fletcher, Daisy, Moses, Dylan, Ronan, Frankie-Minh, Isaiah, and Quincy. She wanted to protect her kids from public scrutiny as much as possible, so she rarely post about them on her social media. “My family means everything to me,” Farrow said.